🇺🇸State: Michigan

Compliance for Michigan Studios

Syyn covers Michigan compliance requirements for tattoo and piercing studios, including state-specific age rules, licensing, and record-keeping.

Compliance Requirements

Age and Consent Rules

  • Tattoo: consent allowed, written_in_presence.
  • Piercing: consent allowed, written_in_presence.
  • Intimate piercing: 18+ only.
  • Michigan: For minor procedures, the parent/legal guardian must provide proof of authority (minor birth certificate or legal guardianship proof).

Licensing Requirements

  • MI: Michigan licenses body art facilities through MDHHS rather than issuing a separate statewide artist license. Facility licenses are renewed annually.

Sterilisation and Record-Keeping

  • Sterilization records required.
  • Retention period: 24 months.
  • MI: MDHHS body-art facility rules require monthly biological indicator testing of each sterilizer, and sterilization monitoring records must be retained for at least 2 years.

Session Documentation

  • Written aftercare documentation recommended.
  • Federal overlays: OSHA bloodborne pathogen standards, FDA ink safety.

Key Legislation

  • State body-art and health department legislation applies.
  • Federal overlays: OSHA bloodborne pathogen, FDA tattoo ink safety, state privacy laws, TCPA/SMS obligations.

Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.

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